Feds again consider reintroducing grizzlies to North Cascades
Federal agencies are yet again considering plans to bring grizzly bears home to the deep forested valleys of the North Cascades where they once thrived.
Federal agencies are yet again considering plans to bring grizzly bears home to the deep forested valleys of the North Cascades where they once thrived.
Plants & Animals
Nov 11, 2022
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The United States faces an ongoing biodiversity crisis, worsened by climate change and the destruction of habitat. Twenty-three species of native plants and animals in the United States were declared extinct last year; hundreds ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 7, 2022
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Gold mining in a Democratic Republic of Congo national park is threatening the okapi, a stripy-legged relative of the giraffe, civil society groups warned on Tuesday.
Ecology
Oct 18, 2022
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Remember the popularity contests of high school? Often our athletic, genetically gifted classmates got the most attention: the school captain, the footy team captain, the prom queen. But popularity contests don't just exist ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2022
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Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and European research institutions are calling for better protections for juvenile emperor penguins, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers listing the ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2022
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Images of damaged coastlines, oily sheens, containment booms and endangered wildlife are part of every offshore oil spill.
Environment
Aug 17, 2022
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Oregon State University scientists are proposing management changes on western federal lands that they say would result in more wolves and beavers and would re-establish ecological processes.
Ecology
Aug 9, 2022
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The proliferation of citizen science platforms has allowed for widespread collection of data in countless disciplines, including phenology, the study of the timing of seasonal events in plants and animals. Writing in BioScience, ...
Ecology
Aug 3, 2022
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SpaceX cleared a key hurdle Monday for its plan to launch a gigantic, futuristic rocketship into orbit from Texas.
Space Exploration
Jun 14, 2022
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Wildlife authorities are trying to determine why large numbers of California brown pelicans are being found sick and dying.
Ecology
May 27, 2022
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